Harrison Ford injured in WWII aircraft accident

Harrison Ford was injured and taken to hospital last night after he crash-landed a Second World War training plane into a golf course after engine trouble on take-off in Los Angeles.

The yellow single-engine plane, which Ford was piloting, clipped the top of a tree and crashed at about 2.25pm at Penmar golf course, which lies at the end of the Santa Monica airport runway, according to the Los Angeles fire department.

A spokesman said the 72-year-old star of the Indiana Jones films suffered “moderate trauma and was alert and conscious”.

An experienced pilot, he was the only person on board the two-seater aircraft.

Reports said that Ford, who was bleeding from head wounds, received emergency treatment from two doctors who had been playing golf.…

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